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The Martian VR Experience is coming to PSVR and Vive tomorrow

by Adi Robertson

As consumer virtual reality headsets hit the shelves, experiences that were once limited to film festivals and tech shows are becoming at least a little bit more widely available. And the latest to do so is a tie-in project for Ridley Scott’s 2015...

Watch the first trailer for Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast

by Kwame Opam

Disney’s live-action retelling of Beauty and the Beast finally has a full trailer, and it promises everything we saw in the 1991 original, but on a far grander scale. Here, we see Belle’s father Maurice (Kevin Kline) waylaid by the Beast (Dan...

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Anime master Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement to make one last film

by James Vincent

Back in 2013, legendary Japanese animator and director Hayao Miyazaki announced he would be retiring; making no more feature-length films in order to concentrate on smaller projects. Well, it turns out you can’t keep a good Oscar-winning artist...

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Westworld vs. Jurassic Park: when playing god is clearly a bad idea

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Let’s play a quick guessing game. The franchise in question involves an old guy trying his hand at being god, a wondrous theme park that goes awry, and a lot of death and destruction. What pop-culture project am I describing? If you answered W...

Ghost in the Shell director defends controversial Scarlett Johansson casting

by Sam Byford

The upcoming Hollywood live-action adaptation of anime classic Ghost in the Shell has attracted quite a bit of controversy for its casting of Scarlett Johansson in the main role — the white American actress plays The Major, a character known as...

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Watch Scarlett Johansson in the first Ghost in the Shell trailer

by Sam Byford

The first full trailer for Ghost in the Shell, the live-action adaptation of the classic manga and anime series, is here. The movie sees Scarlett Johansson play The Major, a soldier with a human mind inside an android body, alongside Japanese...

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10 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

I rewatched The Big Short recently, and one moment near the end of the film stood out to me in a way that didn't quite register my first time through. Steve Carell's character — a surly, idealistic investor — has been holding bankers' feet to the...

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Arrival is a soulful sci-fi instant classic

by Bryan Bishop

Director Denis Villeneuve successfully merges hard sci-fi and real emotion in one of the best films of the year.

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Doctor Strange or Trolls: Which is the trippier movie?

by Megan Farokhmanesh and Kwame Opam

There are a lot of ways movies can be “trippy,” a word we apply liberally to any experience that replicates the effects of a mind-expanding substance. A dream within a dream within a dream? That’s trippy. The story of one man’s life interrupted by...

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Star Wars: Rogue One’s international trailer gives us a better look at Vader

by Andrew Liptak

An international trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has hit the web, giving us our best look yet at the franchise’s iconic villain, while also providing a bit more of a glimpse into Jyn Erso’s backstory. The new trailer includes new footage...

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J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Middle Earth will add new depth to Lord of the Rings

by Andrew Liptak

Earlier this week, Deadline revealed that New Line Cinema would be revisiting the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Rather than adapting one of his many novels or stories, director James Strong will be helming a film about the author himself, which has...

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The first trailer for Luc Besson’s Valerian promises a dazzling space opera romp

by Andrew Liptak

A teaser trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has arrived, and it looks as though it’ll be 2017’s most amazing-looking thrill ride through space. Based on a series of French graphic novels Valérian and Laureline, Valerian and...

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I voted Kodos: relishing the presidential politics of science fiction

by Kwame Opam, Andrew Liptak, and Chaim Gartenberg

Are you stressed? We are. It’s Election Day here in the states, and American citizens are casting their ballots right now to determine the future of the country. The decisions will influence the future of business, science, foreign affairs, and...

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Cat-collecting game Neko Atsume is getting a live-action movie release

by Megan Farokhmanesh

The best cat-collecting game ever made, Neko Atsume, is being adapted into a live-action film. The movie is called House of Neko Atsume and will be released in Japanese theaters in 2017, according to a translation from Siliconera. It will star a...

Doctor Strange: the good, the bad, and the awkward

by Tasha Robinson, Bryan Bishop, and Kwame Opam

Three writers fight over whether the movie made its points, needed its humor, or created a compelling world.

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Doctor Strange’s murky morality brings it close to being a supervillain origin story

by Kwame Opam

Doctor Strange hit theaters just a few days ago, catapulting fans deep into the weird far reaches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s brand-new territory for the long-running series; where superheroes like Iron Man and Thor already have...

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11 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

What a good few weeks for movies — I feel like there are a ton of interesting and exciting things out right now. Last Saturday night, I went to go see Moonlight, which is as amazing as everyone’s been saying. It’s so so well done, with such care...

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In Loving, Jeff Nichols' version of history is as quiet as the real thing

by Tasha Robinson

His story about the interracial couple who changed marriage law is patient, subdued, and seductive.

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Night of the Living Dead has always looked awful, but the 4K restoration is terrific

by Charles Bramesco

The parallels are simply too good to pass up: like a sunken-eyed ghoul crawling out of its own grave, George A. Romero’s 1968 homemade horror show Night of the Living Dead has returned to wreak havoc. It’s been a long road through hell for the...

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Writer of planned Sandman movie quits, says Gaiman adaptation will only work on TV

by Rich McCormick

The movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's comic classic Sandman has had another nightmare: its writer has dropped out. Eric Heisserer said he was leaving the project last night, telling io9 that the source material wouldn't work as a movie, and would...

Four things that we want to see in the Starship Troopers reboot

by Andrew Liptak

Starship Troopers is one of the best-known and most divisive works of science fiction, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, a reboot is in the works from the writers behind the upcoming Baywatch movie. THR reports that the film will be...

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Vimeo is planning to launch a subscription streaming service

by Lizzie Plaugic

Vimeo is apparently getting ready to compete against Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu with the launch of its own subscription streaming service. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, interim CEO Joey Levin recently discussed the plans in a letter to...

Diana goes to war in the latest Wonder Woman trailer

by Kwame Opam

The latest trailer for Wonder Woman just landed, and here we see Diana (Gal Gadot) looking back on how ugly a world at war can be. Here, she sees men invade Themyscira, and feels the pull to help stop "the war to end all wars." Unsurprisingly,...

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First trailer for Trainspotting 2 asks you to choose life, choose Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

by James Vincent

The sequel to the 1996 cult classic Trainspotting is coming out early next year, and we finally have the first full trailer. The follow-up from director Danny Boyle sees the return of the original cast, and, by the looks of it, a very familiar set...

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate-change doc is streaming for free ahead of US election

by Tasha Robinson

Before The Flood is now on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and more

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The director of Iron Giant and Ratatouille explains the beauty of animation

by Andrew Liptak

Incredibles. The Iron Giant. Ratatouille. Brad Bird is responsible for some of the best animated films in the last decade and a half, and in a fantastic new video essay by Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr., Bird outlines exactly what appeals to him about...

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Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection launch streaming service for film nerds

by Lizzie Plaugic

FilmStruck, the streaming service for “die-hard movie enthusiasts,” launched today. The service is a joint venture between Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection meant to fill in classic film gaps left by Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu....

How Moonlight’s creators made a universally acclaimed window into gay black identity

by Tasha Robinson

Since the moment Barry Jenkins’ feature film Moonlight debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in November, it’s been a critical darling, with rave reviews following it from film festivals in Toronto, New York, and Rome to its current wide release...

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Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in November

by Bryan Bishop

Usually in this post I try to design some (not-so) clever competitive framework that allows the various streaming services to compete against one another based upon what shows they add or lose in a given month. The kind of thing where I say that...

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Last Camera Standing: horror's favorite found footage trick

by Bryan Bishop, Tasha Robinson, and Kaitlyn Tiffany

When audiences go to see a found footage horror movie, they know they’re signing up for a particular kind of experience. Shaky footage, tearful confessions delivered directly to camera, characters awkwardly justifying why they’re still filming,...

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Why Fox is ditching Marvel's superhero strategy

by Kwame Opam

A Deadpool sequel is in the works, but it’s in need of a director. The Wrap reported last week that director Tim Miller walked away from the project due to creative differences with star Ryan Reynolds over how to approach the follow-up. Miller...

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The Cubs' losing streak has become science fiction's go-to check on reality

by Andrew Liptak

The Chicago Cubs are in the World Series for the first time in decades. The team’s losing streak is legendary: it hasn’t won the title since 1908, and last made it to the Series in 1945. It’s a drought that has become so ingrained in culture that...

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